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Is that vultures or lawyers that I see circling over the Orlando Disney? Especially since there is a record of a gator charging the five year old of a British couple?

toad wrote:Is that vultures or lawyers that I see circling over the Orlando Disney? Especially since there is a record of a gator charging the five year old of a British couple?

That is why they have insurance... I would bet that a settlement was drafted before the body was even recovered.

Vonz90 wrote:Per the news, the family was from Nebraska. I am going to assume they did not have a lot of first hand experience with gators.

Please don't think I'm criticizing the father. It was a terrible situation, and the father did what he thought he could at the time.

But had he known to get the gator out of the water, he would have had a decent chance at success.

toad wrote:Is that vultures or lawyers that I see circling over the Orlando Disney? Especially since there is a record of a gator charging the five year old of a British couple?

I very much doubt that any local attorneys want to clash with the house of mouse, extremely deep pockets(quarterly earnings measured in billions) and a decades long corporate culture of running their own fiefdom(seriously, they have their own government called reedy creek). They'll be made an offer, and if they choose to fight them, the mouse will stall for decades.

why don't they feed the Orlando shooters body to the gators?

Disney also has a tactic of using every attorney for a couple hundred miles. There's apparently a bar rule that an attorney cannot file a suit against a client on behalf of another client.

So you have to import your attorney, at typical rates.

An out of state law firm might consider Disney a rich fat and juicy target. There are some that just like the publicity they would get from taking on Disney and painting them as rich villains.
There are continuous posts about Disney messing up, example they let very rich guest who wanted to feed the gators feed the gators.
I wouldn't be surprised if Disney is self insured but that could back fire on them.

HTRN wrote:

toad wrote:Is that vultures or lawyers that I see circling over the Orlando Disney? Especially since there is a record of a gator charging the five year old of a British couple?

I very much doubt that any local attorneys want to clash with the house of mouse, extremely deep pockets(quarterly earnings measured in billions) and a decades long corporate culture of running their own fiefdom(seriously, they have their own government called reedy creek). They'll be made an offer, and if they choose to fight them, the mouse will stall for decades.

Any attorney worth a damn would be salivating at the prospects of a case like this... And their very first move would be to strongly advise their client to negotiate a deal for a settlement. Any kind of a trial would be absolutely brutal for the family regardless of the outcome and any jury in Central Florida is going to be made up of people that are going to think "duhh, water = gators"

As I said earlier, I bet the settlement offer was written before the body was even found.

Guest death on property is one of the pre-planned, pre-approved items in the contingency planning, and it wouldn't surprise in the slightest.